This is what we know for sure: Apple computer chief executive Steve Jobs will walk onto the stage of the Moscone Centre, San Francisco this Tuesday afternoon. What happens beyond that is anyone’s guess — and almost everyone is having a guess.
The British and Israeli governments were engaged in a full-scale row yesterday after Ariel Sharon banned Palestinians from attending a peace conference in London next week.
Six municipal by-elections are to be held in South Africa on January 22, four in African National Congress strongholds, one in an Inkatha Freedom Party stronghold and another in a more marginal seat vacated by a Democratic Alliance councillor.
Anne Boher, a French journalist working for the Reuters news agency was briefly detained by Ivory Coast authorities and released without charge, Reuters said on Tuesday.
French police defended themselves on Tuesday over an incident in which they detained a television news crew from the west African state of Mali and erased part of their camera tape after being filmed manhandling two Malian illegal immigrants.
The 128 000 member Solidarity trade union has asked the US government and the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) to ban the listing of South African telecommunications utility Telkom on the NYSE.
Pledged financial aid from the international community started to pour in to the Middle East this week as Arab states brace for a US-led war on Iraq.
Train services on Zimbabwe’s busiest railway line have been closed for the past three days after illegal gold miners in central Zimbabwe dug large tunnels underneath and right next to the railway line, railway authorities said on Friday.
South African economic policy makers will be faced with a dilemma over interest rates in 2003 — whether to lower them as quickly as possible to support economic growth or to cut them more slowly to maintain capital inflows to support the rand.
The South African government has confirmed that it has received a request to assist in an investigation into alleged irregular funding by a South African citizen of Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s election campaign.